When comparing Antergos vs macOS, the Slant community recommends Antergos for most people. In the question“What is the best desktop OS?”Antergos is ranked 7th while macOS is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Antergos is:

Antergos is a rolling release distribution (as it's based on Arch Linux). Your entire system, from the base OS components to the applications that you install, will receive updates as they are released upstream—with only a minimal delay to ensure stability.

Pros

Pro

Rolling release model make is easy to keep apps on updated versions

Antergos is a rolling release distribution (as it's based on Arch Linux). Your entire system, from the base OS components to the applications that you install, will receive updates as they are released upstream—with only a minimal delay to ensure stability.

Pro

Offers choice of desktop environment on installation

Ability to choose your preferred desktop environment on installation.

Pro

Easy to install

ArchLinux is rather hard to install using command line. Antergos's advantage is the easy installation using a GUI.

So instead of manual installation of software you can just download Antergos which does things for you automatically.

Pro

Offers minimal ISO download

Pro

It comes with every essential utility pre-installed

Pro

Arch User Repository access

It can visit AUR to build packages.

Pro

Surprisingly stable Linux desktop

From popular distros of rolling and standard releases, compared to Debian (stable) and Arch, Antergos stability rocks. Debian is stable, however, it's with old packages and Arch. The only thing that broke it, so far, was compiz-manjaro (C++ 0.9 branch) from AUR, but compiz in Antergos repositories is 0.8 and it is working flawlessly.

Pro

First Linux desktop that makes Windows look bad

Antergos has very nice default themes (KDE/Plasma and Gnome/GTK), which combined with Compiz 0.8, makes Windows looks sad. Antergos can even compete with Windows in regards to stability.

Pro

Powerful terminal

It's very similar to a Linux terminal.

Pro

Based on Unix

macOS being a UNIX certified system means that you can install a lot more stuff with a lot fewer headaches then if you were on Windows.

Pro

Polished UI

The UI of Mac OS is rather unrivaled. The smooth, responsive, and cohesive UI makes the system quite joyous to use.

Pro

Best support for Objective-C

Pro

Easy access to lots of great dev tools

There's a large selection of great development tools available for OSX. The operating system itself comes bundled with a powerful terminal emulator, called Terminal. Additionally, Apple provides tools, like Xcode, an IDE that contains a comprehensive collection of tools for developing OSX and iOS software, for free.

Pro

Lots of open-source software available

Because it's Unix under the fancy GUI, most open source ports easily to it.

Pro

Great Git GUI tools

Tower, Kaleidoscope, SourceTree

Pro

Has too many special tools for devolopers

Pro

Ideal setup, out of the box

Next to no custom configuration is necessary.

Pro

More commercial software and gaming support compared to other Unix systems

Adobe CC, MS Office, Steam games.

Pro

Great Modifier key layout

Pro

Streamlined workflow between devices

Because this is an Apple product, there is a streamlined workflow between your computer and all mobile devices. For example, if you type an a Pages document, once you save, you can open the updated document just moments later on your iPad, and vice versa. The same goes for iMessage, (yes, you can text people with your phone number from your computer. Actually, you can text other people with apple devices with just your Apple ID, with or without a phone number, for free!) Numbers, Notes, Reminders, Contacts, and just about any other Apple workflow application.

Cons

Con

The installer breaks often

The installer, cnchi breaks all the time. It's very buggy.

Con

Package popularity is not visible in Antergos repositories

Small issue, but would be nice to see package popularity in Antergos repos, just like it is visible for AUR. packages.Antergos with AUR gives access practically to all possible packages, so popularity could help in this sea of packages.

Con

Rolling release problems

Rolling release is quite pain sometimes. You might face some problem with a bugged application since you always get the latest version.

This problem is a little bit solved by Manjaro distro where applications are tested but updates are slower than usual.

Con

Expensive

OSX is tied Apple hardware and Apple hardware tends to be expensive.

Con

No native package management

Con

Most software is closed source

For people who like to use open source tools for their development work, this may be a problem. There's plenty of advantages to open source software, one of which is the ability to tinker with and customize the tools themselves that you are using. Although there's plenty of FOSS tools available for Mac, especially through Homebrew, the number of packages available is much lower than the number of packages available for any Linux distribution.